Short Biography

Mehbooba Mufti Complete Bio & Career

Mehbooba Mufti hails from J&K and was born to a well known politician father who was representing Congress party. She obtained her law degree from the University of Kashmir. Soon after her studies, she was married and became mother of two kids and was living a normal housewife’s role. The marrieage though lasted in divorce and she became an active politician by joining the Indian National Congress party.

She was given the ticket for the assembly elections in 1996 and got elected as an MLA from the Bijbehara constituency. Since Farooq Abdulla’s party Jammu & Kashmir National Conference party won the elections, she was chosen as the leader of opposition in the assembly.

She soon parted her ways with congress and along with her father formed her own political front called PDP (People’s Democratic Party) in 1999. She became the party’s vice-president and contested in the 2004 general elections and got elected as an MP for the first time. She since then has marched forward and has become the only party in Kashmir who challenged Farooq Abdullah and won the 2015 state elections in Jammu & Kashmir. After her father’s death, she sworn in as the Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir and thus became the first women CM of the state since independent India.

Mehbooba Mufti Family, Relatives and Other Relations

She was born to Mufti Mohammad Sayeed. She was previously married to Javed Iqbal and together the couple had two daughters.